Liverpool’s Luis Suarez has received yet more backing following his eight-game ban and hefty fine, this time from his club mates.
The statement from the Reds’ players on the official club website read:
Luis Suarez is our teammate and our friend and as a group of players we are shocked and angered that he has been found guilty by the FA.
We totally support Luis and we want the world to know that. We know he is not racist.
We are a squad of many different nationalities and backgrounds. All of us support the Club’s commitment to fighting racism. All of us accept there is no place in the game for any form of discrimination. As a group of players we totally support the Kick it Out Campaign.
We have lived, trained and played with Luis for almost 12 months and we don’t recognise the way he has been portrayed. We will continue to support Luis through this difficult period, and as a popular and respected friend of all his teammates, he will not walk alone.
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“No one was asked to do more than anyone else…we were a team. We shared the ball, we shared the game, we shared the worries.”
- Bill Shankly.
PLEASE tell me our players weren’t wearing Suarez t-shirts before the game?!?
We’re the laughing stock of English football.
We are not a laughing stock! this was a public show of support for Suarez after a despicable decision from the FA. Good to see such a strong bond within the team.
Ynwa
Loved seeing the whole team wearing the t-shirts made me even prouder to be a red!! Great to see the solidarity and total support of our player ynwa
Archive article, worth a read:
Aston Villa legend Paul McGrath has revealed that Ron Atkinson called black players coons during training sessions.
The retired soccer star claimed Big Ron used the racist term while manager of the Premier-ship club in the 1990s.
Yet McGrath insisted that his former boss, who resigned from his ITV job last week for branding Chelsea player Marcel Desailly a f***ing lazy big n****r live on air, was an INSPIRATION to black players.
When we put the claims to Atkinson yesterday, he did not deny using the derogatory term coon, but said: You should have heard what the players called me!
Big Ron, from Barnt Green in Worcester-shire, resigned from his £200,000 job as a sports pundit after his outburst on Tuesday night following Chelseas Champions League defeat against Monaco.